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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1911
Page
5
An eccentric Texas feature ends as readers rush to submit their Daffydil poems to the Daily Light before Friday noon. A chorus of humorous verses targets the Daffydil Judge and various local figures, with jokes about arrests and mock trials. Prize money offers a dollar for the best daffydil.
Judge Birkhead in the Seventy third district court issued two temporary injunctions at the request of Assistant District Attorney Carl. The orders bar the operation of alleged disorderly houses in Bexar county at North Flores and Houston streets and at 104 Obraje street. The ADA urged citizen help and vowed to close such venues this summer.
At Travis Park Methodist church women from evangelical denominations planned a mission jubilee to mark fifteen years of American women's work in foreign fields. A two day program includes receptions, a luncheon, meetings, and a mass gathering of San Antonio church women.
The National Rogue Tournament will begin in Norwich Connecticut with a record field including entrants from the west and New Orleans. National Champion Harold Bosworth will face C. King of Chicago for the Van Winkle medal in the honor of evening play under electric lights.
Krupp Hannibal coal mine hoisting machinery failed today causing a four story cage with forty five men to descend three hundred feet. Eighteen miners were seriously injured and twenty six others slightly hurt. No deaths reported.
Mrs Sara Saucke of Hibbing Minnesota killed herself and her six year old son Leo by inhaling gas in a Broadway hotel. After two prior attempts the odor prompted warnings that she might not know how to use the jets. No reason was found for the act.
William J. Dawson, commissioned by the American Elk, the publication of the order bearing that name, left Detroit with the aim to protect wildlife. The news notes efforts by the Elk Lodge of Elks to secure a reserve during winter for animals.
Last night a Wyoming official outlined a probe into a sharp elk decline near Jackson Hole. The Elks lodge plans to urge legislation for a national park or reserve to shield the animals from winter cold and starvation. E. M. Stewart of Chicago endorses Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for hay fever relief. The King Pattison Drug Co distributes the remedy.
Delea gates arrive for the annual reunion of the army of the Philippines and are assigned to quarters. Mayor Thompson welcomes veterans after the first business session, noting their role in the Manila campaign fourteen years ago this Sunday.
Houston police say none of the several arrested suspects are the patrolman Cain killer and that the perpetrator remains at large despite about 1000 dollars in rewards offered by police and citizens.
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